Mark Ridley-Thomas

Experts seek better health outcomes for homeless

2013-06-10 18:08:00

Years after facing patient dumping allegations and hefty legal settlements, Southern California hospital executives have begun working with advocates for the homeless to improve the health of homeless patients and to reduce their use of area hospitals....

Metro recommends contractor (and $160 million more) for Crenshaw Line

2013-06-07 20:09:00

Transportation officials are seeking an additional $160 million for the Crenshaw Line light-rail construction budget, bringing the project’s estimated cost to more than $2 billion, according to a staff report issued Friday by the Los Angeles...

Coliseum deal: USC to cash in on turnover

2013-05-31 20:03:00

About five years ago, County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky denounced USC's proposal to take control of the taxpayer-owned Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and its revenue. "Some people on the board of trustees of the University of Southern California...

L.A. County to try again to cut troubled foster care contractor

2013-05-30 18:55:00

Los Angeles County Supervisors Gloria Molina and Michael D. Antonovich will make another attempt to cut a troubled foster care contractor with a history of misused money and child abuse. Under the supervisors' proposal, the county board has once again...

Compton's mayoral choice: old guard or new blood?

2013-06-01 16:45:00

Poised and polished in an electric-blue blazer, 31-year-old urban planner Aja Brown prepared to make her case to an audience full of voters — many of them skeptics — that if elected mayor she could be the new face of Compton. With her...

Nick Gabaldon Day celebrates surfing pioneer today in Santa Monica

2013-06-01 09:41:00

Nick Gabaldon, a Santa Monica High School student who in the 1940s became the first documented surfer of African American and Mexican descent, is being celebrated Saturday with a number of activities at Santa Monica Beach. Sponsored by Heal the Bay, the...

Charles R. Drew University receives $1-million donation

2013-06-05 17:24:00

Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science has received a $1-million donation — the largest one-time individual gift in the school’s history — from the longtime manager of Ray Charles. The money will be used to fund student...

L.A. County officials to stop sending children to foster agency

2013-05-14 00:00:00

Responding to new allegations of financial malfeasance and abuse, Los Angeles County officials have decided to stop sending children to a private foster care agency that has been responsible for more than 1,100 youths in recent years. The action was...

Feuer touts his ability to work cooperatively

2013-05-13 00:00:00

In his campaign to become Los Angeles city attorney, Mike Feuer has touted himself as someone who will work cooperatively with the mayor and City Council and avoid the squabbles that have marked the incumbent's tenure. During previous stints on the...

Poll finds Garcetti, Greuel in dead heat

2013-05-09 22:45:00

A poll released Thursday shows City Controller Wendy Greuel and City Councilman Eric Garcetti in a virtual dead heat in the campaign to be the next mayor of Los Angeles. The poll, by the Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute of Public Affairs at Cal State L....

L.A. County supervisors fail to win support for cutting ties to foster agency

2013-05-24 21:25:00

Los Angeles County Supervisors Michael D. Antonovich and Gloria Molina this week were unable to win majority support for their push to sever all ties to a foster care contractor with a history of substantiated child abuse and financial malfeasance....

Leimert Park Village hails victory on Crenshaw Line station

2013-05-24 17:21:00

South Los Angeles residents gathered Friday to celebrate a future that many thought would never happen. At a park in tree-lined Leimert Park Village, dozens of community members cheered their victory: approval for a light-rail station on the Crenshaw...

L.A. County Supervisors Don Knabe, left, Michael D. Antonovich and Zev Yaroslavsky, Sheriff's Reserve Deputy Shervin Lalezary, and county Supervisors Gloria Molina and Mark Ridley-Thomas.

2013-06-10 08:01:05

L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas endorsed Wendy Greuel in the Los Angeles mayoral race on Sunday.

2013-03-24 17:34:13

Mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel and Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas talk to the press Sunday night.

2013-03-24 00:00:00